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1:37

And when Lauren is paying, do you order the most

1:39

expensive thing on the menu? I tend to

1:41

order several meals. Yes. That's good. Yeah. I

1:44

like to take. That's what I like to hear. Some, some

1:46

heavy to go bags. Somebody

1:50

got to cue me or do I cue myself? Cue

1:52

yourself. Okay. Well

1:57

guys, we're back with another episode of let's talk

1:59

off camera. Everything is

2:01

for the podcast. No, but this is

2:03

a pre-podcast competition. I hope we're rolling

2:06

because all things are for the podcast.

2:08

Yes, Munjaro, let's go. I may or

2:10

may not have asked my doctor if

2:12

I could take Munjaro and Nozemica at

2:14

the same time. Really? Do

2:17

you feel like you're plateauing? I've totally plateaued. All

2:19

of my weights at the doctor have

2:21

stayed to the exact number over

2:23

the past six months. Why don't they just go

2:25

up your dose? I'm Munjaro. You're at the highest

2:27

dose and you plateau. What are you eating? I

2:29

was just in your office and it's like, here's

2:32

the chocolate croissants. Well, it was ridiculous. That's

2:35

my point. You don't have a platter out when people

2:37

come over to your place. You don't have to be

2:39

a chocolate croissant. When people come over for dinner, I put

2:41

it out as cheese platter. Yeah, that's a platter. But I

2:44

don't just have random platters laying

2:46

around in case somebody stops by.

2:50

You have random platters. By the way, it was

2:52

not a chocolate croissant. It was a

2:54

plain croissant and it was a seeded croissant, which

2:56

by the way was very good. Who's

2:59

eating croissants? Because he's not

3:02

making the distinction. What

3:04

I've been told from many people is that

3:06

your body will always fight to get to

3:08

its highest weight. Right. That's

3:11

like evolution. And the only way to

3:13

change that is to create a new set point and to

3:15

hold that set point for at least two years. You

3:18

want to hold off the Cretaceous period. So

3:20

when you say diet, what's the thing you're going to eliminate?

3:23

Cheese. Never. He's Italian.

3:25

He can't replace it. What's the thing? What's the

3:28

thing? Cheese is a sacrament. It'll

3:30

be a limitation on carbohydrates. Like

3:33

a pasta. Probably bread. Bread.

3:35

Bread. I love bread too,

3:37

but I'm fully aware that bread does not love me. Can

3:39

you just give me once the Oprah, I love bread.

3:43

I love bread. Sorry.

3:50

I love bread too. I love bread. Bread.

3:52

All right, we'll scale back on the bread. What

3:55

happens? So I guess

3:57

introing in the middle. Let's do the intro in the middle of

3:59

this episode. episode which has already been

4:01

very juicy. Today we

4:03

will be having SNL's Kenan Thompson joining

4:06

us on the show. Woo hoo! Did

4:09

you guys see SNL this weekend? Jason and Moab?

4:11

I did, yeah. Yeah, it was good. Okay.

4:14

It was funny, yeah, it was really good. But

4:16

I went back and I watched you doing your

4:18

monologue. Oh my God, with my cotton mouth? I

4:21

was so sure about it. It was really funny.

4:23

It was? It was really funny. I don't know

4:25

why, like I wasn't there. That's it, I know

4:27

Albert was there in the studio. Everybody was there

4:29

except for you. I wasn't there. It

4:32

was really funny. And I didn't know

4:34

that was Jason Sudeikis' first appearance

4:36

on Saturday Live with

4:39

your skit. I did not know that

4:41

either. I was shocked to read that.

4:43

I had no idea. I just

4:45

know that it

4:48

was the most terrifying thing I ever did during

4:51

the dress rehearsal. They offered me Vaseline

4:53

backstage for my teeth. And I go,

4:57

for what? And she goes, in case you get dry mouth. And

4:59

I go, oh, I won't

5:01

get dry mouth. And I walked out

5:04

there and my bone dry mouth

5:07

went bone dry immediately from

5:09

terror. And my teeth

5:11

were stuck to my upper lip. My

5:14

mouth is dry the entire time. I'm terrified.

5:16

I am like, something happened to me where

5:19

I became filled with

5:21

terror. And it was the

5:23

scariest thing I've ever done. You were so good.

5:25

It was great, it was great. I loved it. And

5:28

that commercial you did was amazing.

5:30

That's made the rounds on the TikTok.

5:33

On the TikTok. That was his first season.

5:36

Well, he was so kind to

5:38

me and so funny. And he wrote this very funny

5:41

sketch where I'm like in a

5:43

gospel choir. And it's amazing.

5:47

He's truly, Kenan's

5:50

just unbelievable.

5:53

And I did not realize it was his

5:55

first season. He just seemed like such a

5:57

pro. Well, he's ready. We

5:59

can get him on. Well, let's get him

6:01

on. Yeah. Hi handsome. Hi bud.

6:03

How are you? We were just talking about

6:05

you What were you saying? All

6:07

good things. I was talking about how

6:09

I did not realize the time I

6:11

hosted SNL was your

6:14

first season. Uh-huh and Jason

6:17

Sudeikis's first appearance on

6:19

SNL was during my

6:21

monologue crazy Was

6:23

he dancing? I think that was when he was dancing No,

6:27

I think he asked a question from the

6:29

audience. He asked me a question from the

6:31

audience It was like a plant in the

6:33

audience, but here's what I remember I remember

6:35

you being super kind super brilliant You wrote

6:37

this very funny sketch that we were all

6:39

in a gospel choir and I was like

6:42

I was like your lover And

6:44

none of the other gospel singers wanted me

6:46

there because I wasn't a singer I was

6:48

a terrible singer and then I

6:50

was you put me in the gospel choir anyway

6:55

I just remember being very funny and

6:59

you were you know when you're under

7:01

duress and I like to say that

7:03

hosting SNL caused

7:05

me enormous duress As

7:07

it tends to do as it tends

7:10

to do It's

7:12

the people that are the kindest to you that you

7:14

really like a blueprint into

7:16

your brain Mmm, and you

7:18

were that guy you were so nice to me.

7:20

I'm so glad I mean, you're the sweetest How

7:22

can you not be nice to you? Come on?

7:25

Well, you understand you guys have so many people

7:27

in and out of there I'm sure everybody I'm

7:29

sure all of us are a pain in the

7:31

ass And you're like

7:34

another person I've got to lift up and try

7:36

to make humorous, you know and

7:38

and I'm sure it gets old week

7:40

after week, but Thankfully

7:43

you were all so kind to me, but you were

7:45

just a standout because I remember you being

7:48

very encouraging I'm glad I'm glad I

7:50

was encouraging to you because I think

7:52

it's the opposite Like we

7:54

we get excited especially when people come to

7:56

play, you know, it's yeah new opportunity for

8:00

You know some ideas that just didn't maybe work in

8:02

the past They're like, you know, you never know what

8:04

these writers what they have up their sleeve Like what

8:07

they've been holding on for years and sometimes it just

8:09

takes the right host so new

8:11

opportunities for that is always exciting for us

8:13

and We also

8:15

know the burden on the host. So I

8:18

think you know since I've been there

8:20

and the generations You know onward we've all

8:22

been kind of cognizant of that and try

8:24

to be, you know sympathetic to

8:26

that, you know I mean like we just want everybody to have a

8:28

good time because we're stressed out too,

8:31

you know Yeah, of course. We're trying to figure

8:33

out how not to be so stressed And I

8:36

think that's why we lean on each other so much and

8:38

we like, you know cracking jokes with each other so much

8:41

Because yeah, were you there when

8:43

Halle Berry hosted? Yeah, she was

8:45

like my third show same season Okay, so

8:48

here's what I know about when I

8:50

hosted I was backstage and

8:53

I felt like I was going to vomit And

8:56

everybody goes oh, this is nothing at least

8:58

you're not nervous like Halle Berry And

9:00

I was like, how I'm trying to figure out how

9:02

to open the window so I can jump how nervous

9:05

was she? I

9:07

know it was she was she hit it very

9:09

well. Oh really? Yeah, I didn't know this I

9:11

was like Halle such a pro, you

9:14

know what I mean? Like she knocked everything out the

9:16

park But she's also very well taken

9:18

care of she's one of those people that you want

9:20

to take care of, you know Because she's such a

9:22

genuine, you know person and when

9:25

she really understands what she's supposed to do

9:27

You know, there's not a lot of people

9:29

that can compete with her, you know, as

9:31

far as like performances So, you

9:34

know, like you just try to give everybody as much

9:36

armor as you can give them But at the same

9:38

time you never know what the audience

9:40

especially if it's like Wintertime in New

9:43

York and they've been waiting all day to see a

9:45

comedy show They might not be in

9:47

the mood to laugh anymore by the time Are

9:53

you ready for the holidays it's

9:55

in full a holiday swing around

9:57

here I've I've got kids flying

10:00

home. I've got flights that are pre

10:02

delayed. We, you know, we're dealing with

10:04

it. My kids are older than yours.

10:06

Are, what are your daughters in

10:09

Jew? What are they looking forward to? I

10:12

mean, I'm into all of it. So

10:14

I feel like that's, you know, starting

10:16

to trickle onto them. Um, but the

10:18

one thing I know my oldest, she misses her friends,

10:20

you know, she's getting to that age where she doesn't

10:22

want to do anything outside of school. You

10:24

know, like everything has to do with like her

10:26

school friends. And if it's anything

10:29

to do with, you know, us

10:31

without them, it's kind of a task for

10:33

her a little bit at this point. Sometimes.

10:35

Are your girls funny? Are they funny? Like

10:37

you are? They're very funny, especially

10:39

the little ones. She's unbelievably funny. Like she

10:41

is such a little character. She

10:44

put little cucumber slices and a face mask

10:46

on in her little bathrobe the other day

10:48

and then brought up on the couch and

10:50

like did it all herself. Fine.

10:55

That's Gianna, right? Yeah.

10:57

She's amazing. And your oldest daughter's Georgia.

11:00

Yes. Those are great names.

11:02

Thank you. Thank you for knowing. What

11:04

are yours names? I've got

11:06

Michael who's the eldest Lola who's

11:08

our daughter. And then Joaquin is

11:11

the youngest. Amazing Joaquin.

11:13

They were all supposed to be named Joaquin. That was

11:15

the name we loved. Everybody's going to be

11:17

working like George Foreman. Mark

11:20

wanted a real Mexican name,

11:22

but then both of his

11:24

grandfathers died a week

11:27

before Michael was born. So we named

11:30

our kids after both of his grandfathers.

11:32

Then Lola obviously was a girl. So

11:34

we named her Lola. And then finally

11:37

with the third child, we

11:39

got to name him George, George Foreman. We

11:41

got to watch you. You got to name George Foreman. So

11:45

I'm sitting here in my son's former

11:48

bedroom. This is my podcast studio now.

11:50

That's what happens when they leave the nest.

11:53

Exactly. You get your space back. You know,

11:55

it's very funny. You've written this very

11:57

funny book and you talk about how you would

11:59

like line. up your toys and

12:01

give them different voices. I've

12:04

got a bunch of stuff in my son's room

12:06

here and I'm curious if you would give them

12:08

some voices. Yeah, you will? Yeah,

12:10

of course. We just wanted to see what voices you

12:12

could come up with for some of the crap. Oh,

12:15

this is a good one. Oh,

12:17

wow. It's frozen.

12:22

We shall fight to the death. And

12:25

then one of us will be able

12:27

to eat raw meat.

12:29

Incredible. That's very

12:31

good. I don't even know what this is. I would describe

12:33

it to the audience. It looks like Boba Fett.

12:35

I think it's a Boba Fett mask, but I'm

12:37

not even sure if it is. Okay,

12:39

here's one. I don't know what this

12:42

is. This is an action figure and I don't know

12:44

what it is. Oh,

12:46

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

12:50

What's his name? His head

12:52

is big. I don't know. I don't

12:54

know what any of this crap is. He's in the,

12:56

he's in the Marvel verse, right? Yeah,

12:59

maybe. Oh, there's one more. I

13:02

don't even know what this is. I'm not even sure if this is

13:04

a toy. That's the Batman mask

13:06

from the Batman. Yeah, that's

13:09

the, the Riddler mask. Wow.

13:13

Batman, you have found

13:15

me in the first

13:18

book. Yeah. Yeah, the

13:20

Riddler. Yeah, I don't

13:22

know. I mean, I think that's the, oh

13:24

man, shout out to Paul Dano. Oh, this

13:27

is Paul Dano. Oh, this is Paul Dano.

13:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Amazing. Yeah. Has he

13:31

ever hosted SNL? He

13:33

hasn't, but he should. He'd be good at it,

13:35

don't you think? She's incredible. So we

13:38

talked about this when you were on my talk

13:40

show not too long ago. Jan, I want to

13:42

do a follow up with you. Have we reached

13:44

out to Michael Emprick yet? Yes, we

13:46

have. Okay. So they won't do it

13:48

specifically for SNL, but they're actually looking

13:50

into whether or not they'll do it

13:52

for just sketch comedy. Okay. Which I

13:54

think he would have anyway, be the

13:56

longest running, right? Well, I mean, if

13:58

you sketch comedy, he's Absolutely between

14:00

his teenage years and and I

14:03

mean he's got it in the back Yeah,

14:05

so I think a Guinness World Record is

14:07

on your way for sketch comedy I mean if you want

14:09

to present it to him right now Because

14:13

yeah, our whole thing is getting you

14:15

a Guinness World Record for the longest

14:17

running sketch comedian I believe that honors

14:20

like that are like you

14:22

don't realize that they're significant until

14:24

you Guinness gold

14:29

So I am determined to get you that you

14:32

are the running cast

14:34

member in the history of SNL longest

14:37

running What

14:39

keeps you there? I'm I too am a

14:41

person that once I get comfortable somewhere. I'm

14:44

like why leave? Yeah Is

14:47

that is that your mentality? I mean,

14:49

it's a it's a factor, you know, it's a

14:51

it's a very special place I

14:54

say I say this a lot, you know like stability

14:57

and Somewhat predictability is

14:59

nice for an actor, you know,

15:02

so these are all pros

15:04

of me not one to just like run

15:06

for the door But

15:08

I you know, I'm also being asked to be

15:10

there You know the minute it feels like it's

15:13

my duty to oblige. I don't feel like I'm

15:16

in anybody's way or Annoying

15:18

anybody or like I feel like you're

15:20

the heart and you're the heart and soul of the

15:23

show I mean if that's

15:25

the case great I mean what a blessing,

15:27

you know and like that's what I attempt

15:29

to Adhere to that, you

15:31

know, I mean like every

15:33

year or you know, every phone call or every

15:35

dinner with Lauren You know, I mean is like

15:38

everything's so cool. You know, I mean My

15:41

stepping on anybody's toes or anything just by

15:43

being here like for a very long time

15:45

and I'm not cheap You know,

15:47

I mean like I got that's what I was gonna say like

15:49

are you filthy? This point

15:51

you know the means are like I've been doing this

15:53

for a long time So just over time, you know

15:56

things accrue, you know, I mean you can't just

15:58

pay people yesterday's price. This is how those.

16:01

But if you know

16:03

it's not taking away from anybody like

16:05

there's still 16 other cast

16:08

members it's not like they've had to cut it

16:10

down to nine you know what I mean? Right,

16:12

right. What

16:14

is dinner with Lauren Michaels like?

16:16

I picture you going into like

16:19

a subterranean cave. Okay. Right? So

16:21

you get into an elevator it's

16:23

like a it's like a New York City building

16:25

and you think you're going to go up to

16:27

the penthouse but you're taken down. You're taking

16:29

into a subterranean layout.

16:32

I think you're going up but you go down. Yeah you're going

16:34

down. And then the elevator

16:36

opens and it's a full

16:38

city block, loft

16:41

like subterranean dome under

16:44

the city. Yeah. And Lauren is

16:46

there in a smoking jacket. He's

16:49

in like a throne. Dimly

16:52

lit. Dimly lit. Lit by

16:54

candlelight but he's got like people

16:56

actual people that just holds candles

16:59

in front of him. Not candles

17:01

not candelabras just people holding the

17:03

candles. And they love it. Am I

17:05

getting close to what it's like to dine with him?

17:07

I mean it is almost a bullseye Kelly. I

17:09

can't tell you how

17:12

close you really nailed that. It

17:15

is usually at a restaurant but it

17:18

is a step down restaurant so it's

17:20

a sub street level. You

17:22

step into the restaurant. Yeah. Does

17:25

he always does he always pay or

17:27

do you like do you make the

17:29

move to pick up the check? He

17:31

always pays because it's a group gathering usually.

17:33

So it's like the host and like a

17:35

few cast members and some producers and stuff

17:37

like that. So you know. And is it like

17:39

the Real Housewives? You like whoever seated next

17:41

to Lauren is the most important and

17:43

then? Well the host always

17:46

sits next to Lauren so like

17:48

they set that kind of you

17:50

know old-timey president basically like tradition.

17:52

And that's kind of like the energy of the week

17:54

anyway and like the aim of the show anyway. It's

17:57

like it's the host's week. You know what I

17:59

mean? So we all should focus on giving

18:01

them as good a show as possible. And

18:04

then, you know, good shows trickle

18:06

down to the rest of us, you know, and that's

18:08

just how it goes. And when

18:10

Lauren is paying, do you order the most expensive thing

18:12

on the menu? I tend to order several

18:14

meals, yes. That's good. That's

18:17

what I like to hear. Some heavy to go

18:20

bags. Yeah. Yeah. And

18:23

so when you auditioned there,

18:25

can you walk me back

18:27

in time a little bit? I

18:30

want to, you know, all of

18:32

these stories and much, much more

18:35

are in your

18:37

new book, When I Was Your

18:39

Age, which I love. I think you

18:41

have to say it like this. When I was your age,

18:44

you don't just say the title of the book. You have to

18:46

say it when I was your age. You know, when

18:49

I was your age. Exactly. Yeah.

18:53

Exactly. Can you take me back

18:55

in time to when you auditioned

18:57

for Saturday Night Live? The

19:00

year was 2003, I want to say. I

19:05

was two years departed from Nickelodeon

19:07

at this point, made kind of two and

19:09

a half-ish. So

19:12

I was very much in that

19:14

world of unpredictability of being an

19:16

actor and then on

19:18

some auditions that went well and some that didn't,

19:20

you know, and I was coming off of Barbershop

19:22

2, filming in

19:25

Chicago in the summertime, which

19:27

was magical. It's nice. It

19:30

was almost like the down to the day, like

19:32

the last couple of few days, I got the

19:34

phone call, it was audition time. And I had

19:36

been trying to audition for a couple of years,

19:39

but kept getting, you know, showing the door, I

19:41

guess, you know, under the excuse

19:43

like of having like a baby face or whatever, shout

19:46

out to the baby face monologue. I

19:48

was amazing. Yeah,

19:50

so I left straight from Chicago, came to New

19:52

York, but I had to

19:54

do standup comedy, which was, you know, a

19:57

nightmare for me because I'd never done it before. And

20:01

I did like come up with five minutes and like

20:03

if you watch anybody's comedy special that is You

20:06

know five minutes into it. If you look at the

20:08

clock, they've covered a lot of topics, you know I

20:10

mean like it's a lot to talk for five minutes

20:13

So I was nervous about that But you

20:16

know made it through the initial stand-up

20:18

night Addition audition process like at an

20:20

actual stand-up comedy club in New York,

20:22

you know It was very like scary

20:24

because like I didn't know how to

20:26

engage an audience, you know I just

20:28

started you know with a sound effect

20:30

of like a telephone ringing as opposed

20:32

to being like how's everybody doing tonight?

20:34

Is anybody from Kansas City or whatever

20:36

like normal stuff, but I didn't

20:38

know that so I Ran

20:41

through my material and then just ran off the stage

20:43

or whatever But they called me back and I was

20:45

at the studio So that felt better because that was

20:47

with cameras and I could just you know Kind of

20:49

be a kid playing in the mirror kind of thing

20:51

again You knew that world because of

20:53

your years at Nickelodeon exactly and

20:56

then Went home back to LA for

20:58

like a week and didn't hear anything So I thought I

21:00

blew it and then they

21:02

finally called and they were like we like you

21:04

But we want you to try one more time

21:06

this time at the laugh factory more

21:08

stand-up Blah blah nah to do

21:11

ten minutes and it was just like oh

21:13

man. I don't know about this It's like algebra

21:15

when you're in school, you know, you're

21:17

like I'm never gonna need this shit I'm not

21:20

gonna need it at all, but I did need

21:22

this job actually It's

21:24

a life-changing job and I

21:26

knew that so it was just all the pressure in the world like

21:30

More pressure than I've ever felt I think for

21:32

any one specific job because usually

21:34

you can just audition something if you didn't get

21:36

it Like hey, oh, well, you know, there's another

21:38

one But there's not necessarily another SNL kind of

21:40

moment audition or whatever you just

21:42

history Yeah, it lives with you. You know I'm saying

21:44

if you get it It lives with you if you

21:46

don't get it that lives with you too Just

21:49

how good does it feel to to

21:51

make history within the history crazy?

21:54

It's so crazy like it's it's hard

21:56

to really understand because my

21:58

tenure there is almost have the

22:01

existence of the show, which is insane, because

22:03

like that show

22:05

has like really kind

22:08

of molded the comedy of

22:10

like America for, you know, 45 years, you know,

22:12

48 years 49, you know, it's

22:16

crazy. So for my name

22:18

to be somewhat synonymous with that,

22:21

I don't know, like, it's a lot. Do

22:24

you have a sketch that is your favorite that

22:26

you're the most proud of one that you're like,

22:29

or is there one that you're like, I don't care that

22:31

the audience didn't even laugh at this. This is my

22:33

favorite. Yeah,

22:37

there's been a few of those that have definitely

22:39

like missed the mark with the audience. But then

22:41

there's also been some that

22:43

have like, hit it with the audience

22:45

and then it got cut and then had to like

22:47

come back underneath another host. So

22:50

we did this sketch called Active Jack, where

22:52

like, a lot of like 70 shows used

22:54

to be, you know, be like a

22:56

sitcom about aerobics kind of thing with like

22:58

a character, you know, so this

23:00

was like the opening

23:03

theme song of like Active Jack and he'd

23:05

be like very sesame streetish like, Come on,

23:07

kids, it's time to work out. You know,

23:09

like I'll show you how to do some

23:11

jumping jacks, or do some push ups, like

23:13

all set to music or whatever. And

23:16

like that opening was like supposedly very

23:18

famous in the sketch. And this is

23:20

like the 50th year anniversary. And they're

23:22

doing a new performance and you know,

23:24

Active Jack is older. So like it's

23:26

me at this point. You know,

23:29

with gray hair and like out of shape or whatever. So the

23:31

first time we did it, we did it with like Bruno Mars.

23:34

And it went great. And it just got cut

23:36

for some reason. And then like

23:38

years later, we did it with like Kevin Hart

23:40

and then it made it so like, that was

23:43

cool. Yeah, so you kept it and you there's

23:45

not like a moment where you're like, we're getting rid

23:47

of this sketch. It's never coming back. You

23:49

always keep them somewhere hidden in them. Kind

23:52

of it depends. Like once you try

23:54

it twice, that's usually kind of the

23:56

limit. Like some people push it a third time,

23:58

like after some years have gone. buy or something.

24:01

But usually like, you know, two times

24:04

and it's probably done. Do

24:06

you have the same love for What's Up

24:08

With That that we all have at this

24:10

table? Because I've got to tell you, we

24:12

will randomly like in between podcasts, just

24:15

watch What's Up With That. Oh,

24:17

that's fantastic. I definitely do. Probably

24:19

be honest, it's my baby. You know what

24:22

I mean? Like that was my

24:24

idea baby. You know what I mean? Like,

24:27

I think I had that like pretty much

24:29

the whole concept, you know, like pretty much

24:31

like I took it to Brian Tucker who

24:33

I write a lot with and

24:35

he helped like fill in the

24:37

whole thing. But I think like the overall concept, you

24:40

know what I mean? It's just like an idea. Like

24:42

I think it'd be funny to have a talk show and not let people

24:44

talk. I know it well.

24:49

Yeah. And

24:52

like, yeah, we said that thing to

24:54

music and it was just such

24:56

a good time. It's so much fun

24:58

performing that sketch, you know, because Albert,

25:00

Albert, you said, do you still do the dance? I

25:03

don't do the dance. Come on. You

25:06

used to come into my dressing room and

25:08

do the dance. They would glide in and

25:10

do the dance. They're a little too stiff.

25:13

Such an epic. Thank you,

25:15

man. Thank you very much. It was so

25:17

much fun. And everybody gets to have fun

25:19

doing it. Even the people that are confused.

25:22

Like, we had like

25:24

Bill O'Reilly one time and

25:26

he was not with

25:28

it at first. And then he ended up having fun. So

25:32

actual Bill O'Reilly. Yeah. You didn't tell

25:34

him anything about the sketch. He didn't

25:36

know about the sketch. Well, I was

25:38

trying to, but he just was like dismissing

25:41

my entire existence. So I was like, all

25:43

right, well, you know, buckle up there cowboy.

25:45

That sounds on

25:47

brand. That sounds exactly

25:50

on brand. Okay. Got it.

25:53

What about Family Feud playing

25:55

Steve Harvey? The best.

25:57

Because I've known Steve for a long time. We

25:59

used to do his show back in the day.

26:02

So it makes it easier. Well,

26:04

as far as my

26:06

impression of him and how I

26:08

sound, I feel like

26:10

it's easier for me

26:13

because it's more familiar. I know exactly which

26:16

Steve Harvey I'm doing as opposed to

26:19

watching him on YouTube or something

26:21

like I do with other people

26:24

that I'm throwing all of a sudden

26:26

at the last minute for a cold open or something. I was

26:28

like, I don't have a lot of time. Let me just listen

26:31

to Clarence Thomas for 40 seconds and see what

26:33

he really sounds like when he talks. What

26:36

does he really sound like? That's the big

26:39

question. Surprisingly kind of normal. Clarence

26:42

is like a little deeper, but also like

26:44

very kind of nerdy, like he maybe went

26:46

to like Northwestern a little bit. Yeah.

26:50

You know, just got to like just remember

26:52

my times at Northwestern. Do

26:58

you ever have the inability

27:01

to shake an impression once

27:03

you go into it and you can't get rid of it?

27:06

Well, I definitely am like a tape

27:08

recorder for other people's things. Like I'm

27:11

constantly quoting, you know, something that I picked

27:13

up from the show that week back to

27:15

the person that did it. So

27:18

hopefully it's not annoying, but to me it's like

27:20

I'm praising them, but I'll stick on it for

27:22

a while. Like Marcelo did

27:25

these like Cuban

27:27

club kind of like promoter

27:29

people like last week. And

27:32

when Chloe walks up, he goes, Oh

27:34

my God. I've

27:37

been doing that for days.

27:41

Like just to myself driving like,

27:43

Oh my God. What

27:48

surprised you the most with their humor?

27:50

Who was like the host that you

27:52

did not think would be funny and

27:54

wound up being unbearably

27:57

funny? Like really funny. I

28:00

mean Peyton Manning was surprising. I didn't know he was

28:02

funny like that. I thought he was just more so

28:04

like kind of football Kind of guy,

28:06

you know what I mean? Yeah, he's got an

28:08

incredible sense of humor There's been

28:10

a few like lizzo destroyed it, you

28:12

know, I mean I knew she was Fun

28:15

though because yeah, I thought I was with

28:17

Eddie Murphy. He was yeah, she was making

28:19

him laugh I would think lizzo would

28:21

be funny. Yeah, but who

28:23

really surprised me? Brian Williams

28:25

back in the day I think

28:28

that shocked everybody. I was like the news guy

28:31

Yeah No, but I feel like

28:33

Brian Williams has always wanted to be an actor.

28:35

He most definitely did What

28:38

about Charles Barkley? Was he a good host?

28:41

One of the most beloved people in

28:43

the world because he refuses to work

28:45

hard and everybody knows it You

28:47

know what I mean? So we just we accept

28:49

it because he's like all my life everything

28:51

was two hours Basketball two hours

28:53

practice two hours games two hours. So I'm

28:55

not working more than two hours. It's like

28:59

We have an entire Saturday to work. So it's

29:01

like I'm not gonna do

29:03

it You

29:05

want to hear a funny story back back in the

29:07

day when I was on all my

29:09

children I see one of our interns

29:12

carrying all of these VCR

29:14

tapes like Sacks and

29:17

sacks of VCR tapes And

29:19

I said, you know, I was holding the elevator i'm like,

29:21

do you need a hand and she's like No, I just

29:23

have to I have to get these out to the olympics

29:26

because The dream team

29:28

watches all my children every day

29:30

and charles barkley once wants

29:33

us to send him The vhs

29:35

copies of the show because they don't have

29:37

access to being able to record the show

29:39

and I was like Shouldn't they

29:42

be worried about? Winning

29:44

the gold medal and not watching

29:46

their story It

29:48

was to me. I gotta watch my stories With

29:52

my taco bell five buck box So,

29:58

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30:00

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30:02

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30:04

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30:06

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30:09

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30:12

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30:14

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30:16

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32:40

You know, Steve Martin and Alec

32:42

Baldwin have this long-running rivalry over

32:45

hosting the show. If the

32:47

boat capsizes, you can only save one of

32:49

them. You only have one life vest.

32:52

Who do you save? Steve Martin or

32:54

Alec Baldwin? Man,

32:59

I mean this is not personal, but

33:01

I feel like it would have to

33:03

be Steve only because of his archive

33:05

of comedy. Like, Alec

33:08

is an incredible archive

33:10

of acting. Like, if you

33:12

ever engage Alec Baldwin about like, you

33:15

know, styles, methods, you know,

33:17

whatever, he'll go deep and

33:19

he'll go really far into the

33:22

reference of the origins of the performance

33:24

art. Right. But Steve

33:26

Martin is a

33:29

library of what has

33:31

been funny since 1970-ish,

33:33

whatever, you know what I mean? So,

33:36

that's a tough one. He's

33:38

a great writer. When you were writing your book, did

33:40

you ask him for any advice? I

33:43

wish. It's tough for me

33:45

to engage big brains like

33:47

that because when you

33:49

bore them, they make it known. Oh,

33:53

I've bored Steve Martin many times. And

33:56

they're not good at hiding it. They're not

33:58

good at just like chit-chatting about it. and

34:00

kind of like, you know, helping

34:02

the conversation along if you're like

34:05

wasting their attention time. Like if

34:07

you have their attention, they

34:09

want you to like have something

34:11

to offer. And a lot of the time is just

34:14

like, oh, no, it's just because you're standing in front

34:16

of me as another human being. I figured

34:18

I would talk to you. Exactly. You

34:20

and I are a lot of like that way. And

34:24

I had to learn that lesson.

34:26

Like, yeah, proximity means nothing. You

34:29

know, I am one of these people. I've

34:32

done my job a really long time, but

34:35

I get starstruck still. I

34:37

still get starstruck. Same. I'm a fan. You

34:39

know, I'm a big fan of people. And

34:42

it's not just, you know, entertainment folks, athletes,

34:45

singers, you know, anybody that's really good at

34:47

what they do and, you know, have come

34:49

across my television and is known for that.

34:52

If I run into them, I'm fascinated, you

34:54

know, and I've been many

34:57

a famous person's ear unwind unwantedly

34:59

for sure. I always

35:01

call it, I call it celebrities

35:03

in the wild. You know, celebrity

35:05

out of wherever they're

35:08

supposed to be. It's like seeing your teacher

35:10

in the mall. It's amazing. I

35:12

caught two of them in the same day. And it

35:15

was sometimes you just forget like

35:18

being in LA, you know, like I used to live out

35:21

there and I went to college out there. So

35:23

whenever I go back out there, like I wander around,

35:25

like it's not a big deal. And you forget that

35:27

it might be Emmys weekend or something like that. So

35:30

I was at the Four Seasons or

35:32

something. And like, I

35:35

forgot it was like Emmys weekend. And then like

35:37

the elevator opens and like Peter Dinklage gets in.

35:39

And like, it took a lot for me not

35:42

to just, oh, just

35:44

give him all the joy and the flowers and the

35:46

this and that and the other. And

35:48

then, you know, I gave him a little bit and he gets off

35:50

and he's like very humble and blah, blah, blah. And

35:54

then we go down another

35:56

couple of floors or whatever. And Giancarlo Esposito

35:58

walks in and I'm like. Yo, I

36:01

cannot handle it. I

36:04

go back to taps with you, bro. Like I had to

36:06

take him all day and he was just like, yeah, yeah,

36:08

yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Well, he didn't want to hear

36:10

it either. I

36:12

just had to flood him with it. Like

36:15

I just love giving people their praise because

36:17

they deserve it. You know, like it's

36:19

it's it really floored me to

36:21

see those two in the same kind of like

36:23

instance. Yeah, we we do the show

36:25

out in L.A. once

36:27

a year, we go out for the Academy

36:29

Awards. So we are out there for Academy

36:32

Award weekend. Crazy. And

36:34

I wander around and Mark is always

36:36

because Mark is the opposite of me.

36:38

He doesn't really care. He's like he's

36:40

like, Kelly, he is constantly saying to

36:43

me, Kelly, be cool. And I'm like,

36:45

I'm not going to be cool. I

36:47

cannot believe that, you know, Tom Cruise

36:49

is at Starbucks. That's wild.

36:52

It's just wild. I'm

36:55

the exact same way. Like I

36:57

met Aretha Franklin like that. You know what I mean?

36:59

Like she was just backstage. And

37:01

like it was a fundraiser that I had

37:03

to go make a half speech for that.

37:05

I wasn't even thinking twice about, you know,

37:08

you know, New York stuff, basically. Like, yeah,

37:10

there's a million different things going on every

37:12

single night or whatever. And, you know,

37:14

you do a lot of like, will you come do this? Will you come

37:16

to like, yeah, sure, no problem. So

37:18

I'm about to go on and I go backstage and

37:20

like she's just sitting there like, you know, waiting to

37:22

go on at some point or whatever. Blah, blah, blah.

37:24

But I'm like, how many backstage

37:26

moments has this woman had

37:28

in her lifetime? Like, this is what she does.

37:30

You know what I mean? Everything for her is

37:32

backstage. So here I am standing next

37:34

to her. What am I not going to tell her? She's great.

37:37

She knows it, of course. But like, I

37:39

got to tell her. But she's so great. I mean,

37:41

she made a rest in peace. She was the

37:43

most she did our show a bunch of

37:45

times. Yeah. And she not only did she

37:48

perform on our show, she used to do

37:50

cooking segments on our show every Thanksgiving. She

37:52

would come out and like cook a turkey,

37:54

cook stuffing, cook a mac and cheese. And

37:57

she was just the greatest. She would come out

37:59

with. purse. Yeah, she has her purse with

38:01

her. Because you're filled with cash. Yeah, I know. I found that

38:07

out. But I asked her I was like, Do you want me

38:09

to hold your purse while you perform? And she would go, No,

38:12

just like that. No, I'm like, I, okay.

38:14

And she would just like put it down

38:16

and belt out.

38:18

She's just incredible. And then pick

38:21

it back up. Yep. And keep it very close. Yeah.

38:24

Yeah. And she, and here's the

38:26

other thing, she would send us flowers. Like,

38:30

I mean, they don't make them like that anymore.

38:32

You know what I mean? Maybe because

38:35

we're not teaching them. We got to teach them.

38:38

Like, that's what you do. You got to show

38:40

you send flowers to people. You say the

38:42

thank you write a letter. Henry Winkler

38:44

wrote me two handwritten notes, DeNiro handwritten

38:47

notes, because we did a like birthday

38:49

video for his son. You know what

38:51

I mean? handwritten note from

38:54

Robert DeNiro. Unbelievable. You know, did

38:56

you frame it? Oh, yeah. I

38:58

have a handwritten note from Don Rickles, because

39:00

I sent him a martini

39:03

shaker for his 80th birthday

39:05

or something. I can't remember. And he,

39:07

he sent me a note that was

39:09

so beautiful. Because you think of Don

39:11

Rickles as the caustic. Yeah, you know,

39:13

that that caustic comedian, Mr. Joe, but

39:15

he sent, he sent me a

39:17

thank you note. Wow. That was so beautiful

39:20

that I framed it because I couldn't believe

39:22

how beautifully he

39:24

wrote to me and with such tenderness and

39:26

kindness. Yeah, there's a real human being in

39:28

there in all those jokes. In

39:31

all those jokes as a real

39:33

human. Yeah. Who's your dream host?

39:35

Denzel was up there. For

39:38

sure. I just think he'd

39:40

be incredible. He would be.

39:43

Tom Cruise is up there for sure. You

39:45

know, that would be wild. We

39:47

have to call Stiller back for that.

39:50

I think Ben Stiller still has done

39:52

the greatest Tom Cruise ever. Ben

39:54

Stiller, he's, he gets the essence

39:56

of people. Yeah. Brad

39:58

Pitt, like tiptoed in. it during COVID

40:00

when he did that code open. But it'd

40:03

be cool if he actually hosted hosted. Did

40:05

you ever see Brad Pitt in Dave? That

40:07

Hulu series? Oh, no, I haven't

40:09

watched much of it. It's the final episode

40:12

of season three of Dave. It's the

40:14

best I've ever seen. He's incredible. And

40:16

he plays Brad Pitt. He plays our

40:18

idea of who Brad Pitt is. Right.

40:20

Perfect. Which is hard to do, as

40:22

you know. Yeah. But he's heard

40:24

it enough times, I think he can mold

40:27

everybody's assumptions basically into a funny thing.

40:29

Shout out to Lil Dicky too, man.

40:32

That show is incredible from what I've

40:34

heard. It's incredible. Nothing but phrases.

40:37

You know, from your book, I learned a lot about

40:39

you. And I

40:41

highly, highly want to recommend

40:43

it to all of our listeners. Don't

40:45

forget to pick up a copy of When

40:48

I Was Your Age. When

40:50

I Was Your Age. Why

40:53

did you decide to write a book? People

40:56

that I envy have

40:58

written books. And it

41:01

just seemed like a natural kind of progression

41:03

for the amount of things that I've done

41:05

in front of people. You know

41:07

what I mean? I guess I've accomplished a

41:09

lot resume wise.

41:11

So it felt like that

41:14

was a version that people knew that

41:16

is not really me necessarily. You know

41:19

what I mean? Those are all performance

41:21

achievements, basically. And the real me, people

41:24

don't know I got a million cousins. You know what I

41:26

mean? People don't know we all grew up semi in Virginia.

41:28

You know what I mean? It was definitely

41:31

a love letter to them,

41:34

but also a little glimpse in

41:37

case I don't get the chance to tell them

41:39

all these stories kind of at once, basically. But

41:41

yeah. Yeah. It's like leaving a living journal

41:44

to people that- Yeah.

41:48

And it's probably my fault, I guess, because

41:50

I guess I haven't gone out

41:52

of my way to be very social

41:54

media-ish to where I'm always just showing my

41:56

interiors of homes or this and the other

41:58

with my family members. blah blah

42:01

blah, but a book felt like I could

42:03

achieve all of that and introduced them to

42:05

me the person as opposed to

42:07

me the performer. So I learned

42:09

in the book that you're into astrology. Yeah,

42:12

I mean, it's real. Yeah, I believe it's

42:15

real. So what is your sign?

42:18

I am a Taurus from what I've been told. Yes.

42:21

I know people that can just call

42:23

it out based by looking at

42:25

people when their birthday is. So like, it's

42:28

not real how they able to do that. And it's not

42:30

just a few of them that are obvious. It's like, they'll

42:33

nail it. You know what I mean? Any

42:35

zodiac that that person is, it's like, you're

42:38

just giving an energy and you have an

42:40

appearance like this, basically. So yeah,

42:42

some of it's surface level, but a lot of it gets

42:44

deeper, I guess, when you start dealing with your rising and

42:46

all that kind of stuff. Do you read

42:48

your horoscope every day? No,

42:50

no, no, no, I don't know. I

42:53

don't like being predicted necessarily because, you know,

42:55

I still like to make choices, I guess.

42:57

Not me. I'm full. I'm

42:59

full horoscope every morning. Interesting. Sally

43:02

Bronfman in the New York Post. I

43:05

think that's the best horoscope to read. Do you want to hear your horoscope

43:07

today? Of course. The

43:10

day's almost over. Yeah, it's nighttime now.

43:12

Let's see how on point it was. Do

43:16

your own thing in your own

43:18

way and in your own time over the

43:20

next few days and ignore those who say

43:22

you are heading for a fall. What

43:25

they actually believe is that you

43:27

are heading for unrivaled success and

43:29

that's what they are afraid of. I

43:32

can dig that. I

43:34

can definitely dig that always. That's a good one,

43:36

right? That's a great one. That's a good one.

43:39

Yes. I mean, it's a lot of like daily

43:41

affirmations always kind of like reminding you

43:43

to like, believe in

43:45

thine self, you know, be thankful, be

43:47

humble. Yes. What I like about like

43:49

astrology and all of that, it's

43:51

just a journal. You know what I mean? It's a

43:53

journal based on the people that were born at these

43:55

times throughout the years have kind of been like this

43:57

or look like that or whatever. Of

44:00

course, those people have their own variations

44:02

because they're individuals,

44:05

but it's pretty

44:07

accurate as far as reading

44:10

people's energy. Our

44:15

job at S&L, we have to cater to a lot of

44:17

different personalities and stuff like that. So

44:20

it's a leg up when you know if you're dealing with

44:22

this kind of person or

44:24

that kind of person. Do you

44:26

ever look up the birth

44:29

sign of the host that's hosting that

44:31

week and you form an

44:33

opinion like, oh, this is going to be trouble? Not

44:37

that it'll be trouble, but it'll just be like,

44:39

I need to approach these things this way to

44:41

get what I need done. Some people can hear

44:44

it when you're like, hey, you should do

44:46

it like this. And then some

44:48

people have to hear it like it's

44:50

their idea when they're like, you know what?

44:53

I should do it like this. Yeah, I just told you

44:55

that, but yeah, it's all good. Mine

44:59

is constantly telling me that I have

45:02

to be financially smarter. I

45:04

mean, it's kind of you spending while you spend a

45:06

while out there. I am the

45:08

most financially responsible person you've ever met.

45:10

And I'm like, I wish Sally would

45:12

give me something new to focus on.

45:15

You know, you tell a story

45:18

about being like a penniless at

45:20

a point in your career. And

45:25

I think it's a thing that

45:27

people in show business fear

45:30

the most. One day

45:32

this will all end and then what? Then

45:36

what will I have? What happened

45:38

to you? Bad accountants

45:40

basically and giving power

45:42

of attorney to bad people. And

45:45

then whatever strategy

45:47

they had collapsed because they

45:49

didn't necessarily share the information.

45:52

Like once you hit the panic

45:54

button on a situation, like if

45:56

you pull out of a trust, you know what I

45:58

mean? You're going to get taxified or whatever. kind of

46:00

thing or whatever. I mean, that's like

46:02

the mild version. This person that I was

46:04

dealing with was an actual piece of shit.

46:06

So there was just layers and

46:08

layers of like all these tactics that

46:11

they were kind of juggling my money with.

46:13

And then once I like opened the door,

46:15

like everything collapsed basically. So everything was tied

46:17

up at that point. You were trying

46:19

to buy a house. And

46:22

that's how you found out you were being robbed,

46:25

basically. Basically. And

46:28

in their opinion, they were like, no, I was doing

46:30

this and I was going to flip that and I

46:32

was going to do that and blah, blah, blah, blah,

46:34

blah, blah, blah. But just basically just buying properties and

46:36

taking liens out and taking loans

46:38

on liens and just money

46:41

flipping without really on a

46:45

deadline, giving any kind of money back. So by the

46:47

time I pulled the plug on everything, it was just

46:49

like, oh, well, everything's kind of tied up basically. So

46:51

you need all these things to happen before. I was

46:54

just like, well, that's all bullshit because

46:56

you didn't share any of that information, blah,

46:58

blah, blah, blah, blah. So you just

47:00

basically technically ran off with my money and how

47:02

dare you do that to a child. You

47:05

know, right? Exactly. So when that

47:07

happens to you at such a

47:09

young age, do you find yourself

47:12

hyper vigilant now or do you

47:14

find yourself almost paranoid to trust

47:16

your money with anyone? No, luckily,

47:20

I was able to kind of compartmentalize

47:22

it and leave it for whatever

47:24

instance it was. Like I'm definitely

47:27

smarter and you know,

47:29

everybody that I deal with is aware that that

47:31

happened to me. So they're always like, no, these

47:33

are the things in the checkpoints that I will

47:35

personally give you on a monthly basis to let

47:37

you know where these things are. And

47:40

like, you know, it just brings

47:42

better people into your life that will do that. Or

47:44

you'll be able to ask for those things from

47:46

those people because you know better. You know what

47:48

I mean? Like, but if you don't know, you

47:50

don't ask. Like we got a power of attorney

47:52

fucking letter from like the drug store. You know

47:55

what I mean? Like we just didn't

47:57

know. So I never even really saw all that money. So

47:59

it's hard to me. It's what you never

48:01

saw basically. It's still so

48:03

frustrating and it's so enraging to me. You know,

48:05

it's, it's enraging

48:07

that though there are people that are

48:10

just so predatory in

48:12

every business, but particularly in show

48:14

business and it particularly when it's

48:16

people that don't necessarily come

48:19

from a show business background and don't

48:21

have the experience behind them. It's the

48:23

newcomers that are preyed upon even worse when

48:25

they look like you, you know what I'm

48:27

saying? So like, yeah, it's a shame. It's

48:29

just like very shameful, but at the same

48:31

time, like that's that person's karma. You know,

48:33

I've been very blessed and

48:35

fortunate to have a tool that I could

48:37

just plug back in basically and

48:39

just like put Atlanta on

48:41

the back burner as far as like living around the

48:43

corner from my mom is concerned. Yeah.

48:46

You know, um, you've gotten, I'm

48:49

assuming that you've worked with or

48:51

met probably all of your comedy

48:53

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48:55

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50:22

is there one that stands out that

50:24

gave you really the

50:26

best advice? Oh, yes. All

50:29

of them lead by example, mostly. But

50:33

Dave's always dropping knowledge. He's

50:36

an encyclopedia of knowledge, whether it's politics

50:39

or Hollywood and how

50:41

to navigate through the business or whatever it

50:44

is, or just being black in America. Just

50:47

sitting around him is always prophetic. Eddie

50:52

is always just like, do

50:54

what you love that you can balance kind of thing.

50:56

You know what I mean? Yes, he loves doing comedy,

50:58

but he also has 10 kids and

51:00

he likes to be at home chilling. You know what I mean? So

51:02

it's all about balance with him. I see that a lot in Steve

51:05

Martin as well, where he's at a point where

51:07

he's like, I kind of just want

51:09

to do what I can kind of maintain without going

51:11

crazy or whatever and not let

51:13

it be demanding because that's when it's not fun

51:15

anymore. You know what I mean? You don't want

51:17

to take the fun out of doing funny stuff,

51:19

basically. Steve just wants to play his banjo. Exactly.

51:22

Exactly. So you got to

51:24

give that man that balance. Jamie

51:27

Foxx told me just in passing

51:29

something, he was just being nice more

51:32

than likely, but it stuck

51:34

with me. He just pointed at me, he was

51:37

like, hey man, you got all the talent in

51:39

the world. And I was young and I was

51:41

back when he was on the Jamie Foxx show.

51:43

So this was years and years and years ago.

51:45

So there's no way that he really knew

51:48

me like that. We were still kind of new to

51:50

the game or whatever, but he went out of his

51:52

way to say something positive to a young black man.

51:54

You know what I mean? That's

51:56

what really stuck with me over

51:58

those years. just been like,

52:01

hey man, high five or whatever, and just walk

52:03

past or whatever, because we were

52:06

at his show and he was about to go do a scene.

52:08

You know what I mean? So it could have easily just been

52:10

like, oh, I'm busy right now, but he

52:12

didn't do that. He went out of his way to

52:14

say something dope. Yeah. Yeah. That

52:16

must happen to you all the time, where there's somebody that comes up

52:19

to you and... It happened

52:21

today. You know what I mean? And

52:23

that's why I try to just go

52:25

out of my way to maintain a positive

52:27

attitude, even when it feels like it's easy

52:30

to just be frustrated or mad at

52:32

the world or whatever, or just annoyed

52:34

at instances. So I was at the car

52:36

wash and this couple comes by

52:38

with their child and he

52:40

stops and he's like, hey, we met

52:42

you on a flight a couple years ago,

52:45

whatever. And you were so nice to our

52:47

son. And I was thinking, I

52:49

was like, well, what flight was this exactly? And

52:51

he was like, yeah, he was having a tough

52:53

time, you know what I mean, sitting still because

52:55

he was young and you let

52:57

him play with your daughters. I was like, oh yeah,

53:00

I remember this. We

53:02

put blankets down on the floor and

53:04

we were all trying to entertain this

53:06

little kid. And he

53:08

was like, man, I never forgot that. I was like,

53:10

wow, that's cool. It's good to see you guys. But

53:13

the randomness of New York, New York

53:15

is a big place. There's a lot of people

53:17

here. So for that person to just come walking

53:19

up on me while I'm just standing on a

53:21

wall on some random street by a car wash.

53:23

You know what I mean? Like

53:25

that's why you put out good energy into

53:27

the world, basically. Exactly. Because

53:30

it always comes back. One million

53:32

percent. It always comes back. Listen, I

53:34

want to thank you for doing our podcast. It's

53:37

in such a pleasure. We just

53:39

adore you here. We're going to like let you

53:41

go and we're going to watch what's up with

53:43

that for the rest of the night. You

53:45

know, same, same, same. Now I

53:47

want to go watch back. We

53:49

really had some great, great sketches and

53:51

appearances with that one. Like I think

53:54

about DeNiro and like Robin Williams being

53:56

together for one of them. Like that

53:58

was an incredible moment. Incredible. and

54:00

Lindsay Buckingham came on. The greatest.

54:02

Yeah, the Buckingham. Two Buckinghams. Two

54:05

Buckinghams. It was amazing. It was

54:08

the best. Listen, to our

54:10

listeners, don't forget, Kenan's book is

54:12

When I Was Your Age. When

54:14

I was your age. Life Lessons,

54:16

Funny Stories, and Questionable Parenting Advice

54:18

from a Professional Clown is available

54:21

now. And don't forget to check

54:23

out his movie, Good Burger 2.

54:25

Yeah. My God,

54:27

you're so busy. It

54:29

is cracking right now. And the strike's

54:32

over, so we can tell everybody. The

54:34

strike's over. The strike's over. Trolls, Nintendo,

54:36

AutoTrader. You know, we're throwing

54:38

it all out there, man. Yeah, AutoTrader too.

54:40

That's right. All of it. Enjoy it. You

54:43

deserve it. Thank you, bud. Thank you,

54:45

Kenan. Much love to you. Happy holidays. You

54:47

too. Happy holidays, y'all. Y'all take care.

54:49

Bye. Thank you so much. We'll

54:51

talk soon. I'll see you soon. Yes, see you soon.

54:54

Wow. That was amazing. That

54:56

was great. That was great. Okay, we have some Ask

54:58

Kelly's. Okay. Yes.

55:01

It's time for all. Hello. Hello.

55:04

Okay. Are we doing the rabbo zag? Yes.

55:06

Person. From Tom Brooks' author.

55:09

Who is more bold to go on

55:11

a nude beach, you or Mark? Oh

55:14

my God, neither of us. I mean, you know

55:16

me, I don't even believe in nudity at this

55:18

point. Neither

55:21

one of us, although about 15 years ago, 15,

55:26

this is a very funny story. We were on

55:28

vacation with a group of friends and

55:31

it was a full moon and all of

55:33

the guys decided to do

55:36

a full moon skinny dip. They

55:38

didn't decide to skinny dip. They decided to

55:40

go down the beach and jump

55:42

in the water, but everybody skinny dipped. I did

55:45

not, because I'm not going in the water in

55:47

darkness. I don't care how

55:49

bright the moon is. The sharks don't care. You

55:51

know what I mean? So

55:54

everybody skinny dipped. The

55:56

next day I'm at the bakery and

55:58

I'm... waiting in line and

56:01

there's a group of like 16, 17

56:05

year old girls standing around talking.

56:08

Okay, now at the time we were like 35.

56:10

Okay. And they

56:12

said, Did you guys go to the beach

56:15

and swim under the full moon? And I

56:18

hear this girl say, Well, we were

56:20

going to but we showed up there was like a bunch of

56:22

70 year old challenge.

56:24

70 year old.

56:26

70. Ouch. Ouch.

56:29

It was so funny. I was like, Oh my

56:31

gosh, 15 year olds look at 35

56:34

year olds and think they're 70. I

56:36

hate to think what they think of me now.

56:39

Forget it. Now I'm like 282. The

56:43

next one is from book it with Doyle

56:45

current favorite restaurant in New York to visit.

56:47

Oh my gosh. I you know me,

56:49

I never leave my house. So it's

56:54

hard to say I think right now it's I

56:58

don't know when this is going to air but

57:00

as we are recording it, it's

57:02

the holidays. So they're all pretty

57:04

spectacular. They're really, really beautiful. They're

57:06

elegantly decorated. They're very festive.

57:08

I want to try the Mark

57:11

Chalet. I don't know if

57:13

you saw that. No. So the mark. Oh

57:15

yeah, the actual it's an outdoor and

57:17

they serve fondue. Does look very cheap. So

57:20

that looks really nice. It looks really, really

57:22

nice. I always say

57:24

if you've got a if you've got

57:26

a big fat wallet and money to

57:28

spend La Bernadine is like no meal

57:30

you will have anywhere else. The

57:32

polo bar is always fun.

57:35

Great people watching Nelly. Nelly

57:37

the chicest hostess in all

57:39

the land and really

57:42

good food consistent and

57:44

always like celebrities.

57:46

Always. Mark said the last time

57:49

we were there Anthony Scaramucci. Oh my

57:51

he was. I didn't see him.

57:54

Why don't I see these celebrities over

57:56

there? They're everywhere. I know I

57:58

don't see them at all. Okay,

58:00

last one from Uncle DJ's. Sello

58:02

Madonna fan here. What are your

58:05

top five favorite Madonna songs? Lay

58:08

it on us. Always

58:10

changing. Okay, I'm going to say number

58:12

five, MDNA. Number

58:22

four. Four

58:26

minutes. Number

58:28

three. This is so hard. I

58:31

don't even know how you're doing

58:33

this, being a flop sweat. It's

58:36

so funny because I like I have

58:38

too many to just name

58:40

five. I want to

58:42

say celebration, but the

58:44

remix of celebration. Number

58:48

two. Burning

58:51

up. Number

58:54

one. Drum roll, please. I

58:56

mean, if you don't say all that shock. I

59:01

know but I think of this to be her favorite,

59:03

so we'll wait to see. Candy

59:06

Shop. Oh, I can't believe I just

59:08

said that. Candy Shop. But it's, which

59:10

one are you thinking? I'm addicted.

59:12

Oh, I'm addicted, of course. I'm

59:14

addicted is my number one favorite. Sorry. I'm

59:17

addicted. Yes, you're right. That's

59:19

what I was thinking. When I said MDNA,

59:22

I was thinking of I'm addicted. I'm addicted.

59:25

So I'll replace number five. I'll

59:28

replace number five with Candy

59:30

Shop. There we go. Okay,

59:32

well, that's it. Don't forget to tell your

59:34

friends about us. Yeah, or don't listen. You

59:36

have two choices. Either you tell your friends

59:39

about us or we'll tell your friends about

59:41

us. And I don't think you want that.

59:44

Okay, I'm giving you the opportunity to tell

59:46

your friends your things. Okay, we'll

59:49

talk with you all next week

59:51

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Bernardo. The executive producer

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of PRX Productions is

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Jocelyn Gonzalez. This

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show is powered by Stitcher. Melojo.

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From PRX. Time for a

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quick break to talk about McDonald's. Know

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how we make our sausage McMuffin with egg? It

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starts with a fresh cracked egg cooked to perfection.

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Then we add a savory grilled sausage patty, American

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cheese, and a freshly toasted English muffin. Know

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what makes our sausage McMuffin with egg even better? When

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you add a caramel mocha or refreshing caramel

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mocha iced coffee to it. So make your

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morning better by starting with breakfast

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at McDonald's. Add participating McDonald's. Have

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you ever told a friend? Oh, I'm

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fine. When you really felt... Just

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so overwhelmed. Or

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sent a text. Can't sleep. Are

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you awake? When you couldn't find the

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words to say. I'm scared to be alone with

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my thoughts right now. Then this is your sign to

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reach out to the 988 Lifeline for

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24-7 free confidential support. You

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don't have to hide how you feel. Text,

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call, or chat anytime.